A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Riddell, Conor

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 528
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 222
Ratio of total words to unique words - 2.378
Tagged as MNB (Mid Northern B) dialect.
Top ten most common words - a, the, tae, it, wis, ma, hid, and, o, in,

List of texts in corpus

San Diego
Scots Hoose (2020) in Doric (Forres) dialect (MNB), categorised as prose (528 words)

Author word Keyness frequencies

This should list the words that the author uses in a disproportionate manner more often than other writers in the corpus. This may include (a) proper nouns (character names in the author's stories), (b) other words related to the specific subject matter and (c) words specific to the regional dialect.
WordCount Normalised
per million		 Keyness
a56 106,060.6166.190
hid12 22,727.2745.502
shopping3 5,681.8236.066
hotel4 7,575.7634.868
christmas4 7,575.7630.846
ma14 26,515.1528.480
canterbury2 3,787.8826.594
holiday3 5,681.8225.004
gardens2 3,787.8824.868
wis20 37,878.7924.126
it21 39,772.7322.076
aready2 3,787.8822.041
lichts3 5,681.8220.667
got6 11,363.6419.075
di2 3,787.8817.426
heided2 3,787.8816.842
cos3 5,681.8216.241
late3 5,681.8215.619
hame5 9,469.7015.491
trip2 3,787.8814.370
train2 3,787.8814.275
tae25 47,348.4812.567
bed3 5,681.8212.433
shops2 3,787.8812.316
there7 13,257.5811.765
gled2 3,787.8811.638
grand2 3,787.8811.591
happy2 3,787.889.784
ane4 7,575.769.651
start2 3,787.889.090
ready2 3,787.888.924
so4 7,575.768.914
takin2 3,787.888.405
wint2 3,787.888.286
couple2 3,787.888.208
bonny2 3,787.887.986
richt4 7,575.767.634
get4 7,575.767.556
next2 3,787.887.407
came2 3,787.886.163
and9 17,045.456.127
cauld2 3,787.885.652
time4 7,575.765.512
than3 5,681.825.355
go2 3,787.885.171
days2 3,787.884.555
funnert2 3,787.88nan
ower4 7,575.764.157
fir2 3,787.883.991
an7 13,257.583.984
didna2 3,787.883.892
tak2 3,787.883.027
thocht2 3,787.882.854
say2 3,787.882.813
that2 3,787.882.618
aboot4 7,575.762.617
wid2 3,787.882.175
were2 3,787.881.971
be5 9,469.701.652
o7 13,257.581.641
jist2 3,787.881.293
fowk2 3,787.881.283
oot4 7,575.761.165
s2 3,787.881.149
on5 9,469.700.792
the26 49,242.420.752
day2 3,787.880.747
back2 3,787.880.639
i2 3,787.880.434
up3 5,681.820.402
like2 3,787.880.253
in7 13,257.580.200
nae2 3,787.880.149
me2 3,787.880.057
but2 3,787.880.001
wi4 7,575.760.001